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The men who made the nation; an outline of United States history from 1760 to 1865

by: Sparks, Edwin Erle, 1860-1924

Publication date: 1901

Topics: United States -- Biography

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.

Collection: library_of_congress; americana

Contributor: The Library of Congress

Language: English

Benjamin Franklin, the colonial agent in England.--Samuel Adams, the man of the town meeting.--John Adams, the partisan of independence.--Robert Morris, the financier of the revolution.--Alexander Hamilton, the advocate of stronger government.--George Washington, the first president.--Thomas Jefferson, the exponent of democracy.--Henry Clay, the father of public improvements.--Andrew Jackson, the people's president.--Daniel Webster, the defender of the Constitution.--Horace Greeley, the anti-slavery editor.--Abraham Lincoln, a new type of American